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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

New, directly employed team members might be able to fill the gap but what do you do when the crisis is over? It may be that you just need an extra pair of hands to help support the team through a temporary crisis. You might have to let them go. You don’t always need a long-term increase in the team’s resources.

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

After the crisis of 2007 and 2008, though, that became a pretty tough argument to make. The increasing rewards to work in finance were for a long time defended as evidence that the financial sector was creating more value than the rest of the economy.

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